October 2007

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana">More political chaos resulting from a smoking ban. City attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the case shortly before the hearing.</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><font face="Verdana">As we know, the mass-media have the task of showing&nbsp;&lsquo;consensus&rsquo; on antismoking campaigns and smoking bans. This is both to establish a new culture and to discourage active opposition. In spite of that, the outrage against antitobacco is strong and growing rapidly &ndash; hopefully, towards an antismoking-free society.</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana">Translation from german by Silviu Druma</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Democrats press for pharmaceutical pubsidies. This article from Norman Kiono includes important information concerning the depth of corporate subsidies that are crafted into the SCHIP bill.</span></p>

<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" vspace="4" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />Interesting video on the tolerance to provocation, politeness and actual intellectual power that is so common amongst antitobacco operatives, such as New York City Councilman James Oddo, great supporter of epidemiological fraud-based smoking bans.</span></font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana">Columnist S&oslash;ren H&oslash;jbjerg reports on the &ndash; should we say usual? &ndash; devastating economic repercussions of the Danish smoking ban.</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana"><img alt="" hspace="2" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" />Many have heard of the Master Settlement Agreement, but very few realize its size and implications. Perhaps is because the size of the exploitation is so large and the numbers involved so big that it is impossible for the average smoking victim to really understand them.</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana">There is this concept that a good citizen must obey the law even when he/she does not agree with it. Bad citizens are bad in part because they do not obey laws.</font></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt">Question: What do you get when a male snake from Philip Morris climbs in bed with a leading-presidential-contender female snake? Answer: a new litter of venomous anti-tobacco activist baby snakes who promote the idea that children&rsquo;s health insurance should be financed by Philip Morris customers.</span></p>

<p>Good news for American smokers. For a change, a ‘disposable’ and less wealthy minority – smokers – will not have to finance a richer and ‘non disposable’ majority, the non smokers. Let’s light up a cigar to that! Columnist Norman Kjono gives us the details.</p>